Gunmen yesterday murdered an Iraqi TV journalist, the second to be killed in Iraq in as many days. Safah Abdul Hameed was shot dead in front of his home in the northern city of Mosul as he left for work at the al-Mosuliyah satellite TV station.

A day earlier, the prominent al-Iraqiya TV presenter Riad al-Saray (aka Riyad Assariyeh) was gunned down outside his home in Baghdad.

The deaths coincided with the release of a report by the international press freedom watchdog, Reporters without Borders, that the Iraq war over the past seven years has resulted in the heaviest death toll for the media since the second world war.

A pdf of the report, The Iraq War: A Heavy Death Toll for the Media, is available here.